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You guys are great. It's all good. I'm really thrilled with the enthusiasm of everyone here and with the progress of this project.
I have the newest version of the pickup is installed and it sounds really sweet! It's wound 4% hotter than the first one in an effort to bring out the mids and fatten up the highs a bit.
The interesting thing is, the extra winds seem to have taken the sound slightly further away from an original WRHB, but the sound is so good, I'm not sure which way to go now. Part of the concern is that my '72 Re-issue Tele is a bit bright and slightly void in the mids so I have a fairly limitted range of testing. When I play the guitar and switch back and forth between my pickup and the MIM re-issue, the MIM sounds very weak and void of character. I'll be testing this again tomorrow against an original 74 Tele Deluxe. Thinlines and Deluxes are very different but the pickup voice is still fairly obvious. Once I've tested that and approve, I'll get a couple of these out there for others to try before settling on the final version.
I might be able to throw a quick sound clip together tomorrow. I like this new version a lot. The previous one had the lows of the original nailed but the highs just weren't as saturated. The new one has better saturation in the mids and highs but the character of the bass has changed. It's still tight and sweet, but much more complex now than the originals. In the end, it may not sound exactly like an original, but it is worlds ahead of the MIM Re-issues, and in my opinion, right up there in "quality of tone" with the originals.
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